Rumors have been circulating that computer maker HP would be offering customers the ability to downgrade to Windows XP later this year when Windows 7 ships out. Now that rumor has been confirmed with an announcement by software giant Microsoft, confirming that users will not only have rights to downgrade to Windows Vista, but also…
OS Wars V: Microsoft Strikes Back
Apparently sick and tired of Apple’s pretentious “I’m a Mac. And I’m a PC,” ads, Microsoft has recently struck back with a series of “Joe the Plumber”-esque ads where different everyday people proclaim what they use their computers for and say proudly “I’m a PC.” The most recent ad has taken a new stab at…
Bleeding Edge Technology: Vista SP2 RC Released
Today Microsoft announced that the release candidate (RC) for Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is now released to the general public for beta testing. How can that be a bad thing? It works for OSS projects like Firefox and various Linux distros. Just anyone can go and download these might-as-well-be-final versions of their product and…
Same Browser Wars, Different Day
In the European Union, Opera is in the process of bringing a suit against Microsoft for bundling Internet Explorer with its operating system. Microsoft is slated to include Internet Explorer 8 in its latest operating system, Windows 7. Recently, Mozilla foundation threw its hat in the ring with Opera to go up against Microsoft, and…
Google Reverse Engineered Vista Code to Write Chrome
It’s no big surprise that Google makes a superior web product for a lot of our day-to-day needs. Recently, Google announced their new web browser called Google Chrome. It’s code is based on Mozilla Firefox and Apple’s Web Kit used in Safari (on Mac, PC, and iPhone). There are several suspicious lines in the code,…
Crashes Happen at the Worst Time
It happens to all of us – you’re in the middle of an important PowerPoint presentation for a huge client, or an important executive at work, you are just about to hit save on an important project for school, or your soon-to-be-published memoirs due at the publisher in less than an hour. At some time…
Make Headers Stay Across Pages on Tables in Word
A quick Microsoft Word tip: if you’re working with a table you’ve created in Word, and your table spans multiple pages, it can be annoying to flip back and forth to remember what each column represents. Ideally, you’d like to be able to keep the column headers on the table in Word across each page,…